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Teeny weeny new potatoes

I know I should be very grateful that Mr manny has come home with two muckle bags of ickle new potatoes (a wee bit smaller than ping pong balls), but all I know how to do with new pots is... boil them.
Which is a bit boring. Please does anyone have any good suggestions for different and tasy ways with new spuds? Thanks.
p.s. really needed some good floury spuds for mash (cottage pie etc.). Yes, I know, I am a miserable sod.

No! You're like me - poor Mr EG can do no right. He could kiss me feet everyday and he'd still be doing it wrong!
Now...
Boil them and toss in butter and chopped parsley before serving.
Parboil them, coat in olive oil and finish cooking by placing on a baking tray - mini baked pots!
Boil them, cut in half, add olive oil and use as the topping for a fish pie/cottage pie .etc.
"crush" them with a fork and add olive oil
cook them in paper with herb butter
patatas bravas
I love cold new potatoes in a sandwich with plenty of pepper...
There's some ideas. I may be back...

I really like them left in their skins, steamed or boiled, then tossed around in butter and rosemary until the skins are just starting to go slightly crispy in some places.
Or tossed around a bit in bacon fat, with the chopped up bacon bits and some spring onions.
Or served with a quark and chive dip.
Or with fish (hey, has he brought some fish home yet?) I really like them par boiled, then put in a roasting dish and drizzled with the juice of a lemon and the zest sprinkled over the top, a lug of oil and some rock salt, then roasted in the oven for a half hour or so.

Cheers for those ideas, CQ. I'm doing a roast chook for dinner tomorrow, so I'm spoilt for choice now!

celticqueen said:

has he brought some fish home yet?

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Not yet - he can't take a fish of any description off the Whiteadder till July, but he's got 4 days booked on the Till at the end of May and he can take a sea trout IF he catches one. They are harder to snag than salmon.
Will freeze some steaks for your next trip, for you and yours if he gets lucky.